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Comey compared Trump to the mafia bosses he spent years prosecuting as a young public servant.“I’m not trying to … suggest that President Trump is out breaking legs and, you know, shaking down shopkeepers,” Comey said, adding that the similarity was in what he saw as a culture of loyalty around the president. “The loyalty oaths, the boss as the dominant center of everything, it’s all about how do you serve the boss, what’s in the boss’ interests. It’s the family, the family, the family, the family.”

@SkyNewsBreakFollow Follow @SkyNewsBreakMoreDowning Street says Prime Minister Theresa May will meet counterparts from Caribbean states to discuss concerns over the status of 'Windrush' generation immigrants

Child born outside the UK to at least one British citizen is a British citizenProve itHereEvidence not robust - no proof of British citizenship. You must satisfactorily prove you are a British citizen.I'm rather devastated by your response above at the moment...You must satisfactorily prove you are a British citizenMy parent(s) are British citizensYou must satisfactorily prove you are a British citizen

According to Channel 4 News’s Cathy Newman, the immigration minister Caroline Nokes told her in an interview being broadcast tonight that some “Windrush generation” immigrants have been deported in error. (Politics Live, Guardian)

Cathy Newman✔@cathynewman Immigration minister @carolinenokes apologises to #Windrush generation wrongly questioned over their right to stay in UK but tells me some have been deported in error. Watch full interview at 7 on @Channel4News

NoPeople denied their rights as British citizens is horrifyingAny government changing rights, privileges and/or obligations retroactively violates a trust, throws rule of law right the hell out the window You'll never know until you're informed of changes Unacceptable

Rudd says that, if people have been in this country for decades, there will be proof of that. The Home Office will help “Windrush generation” applicants to find this evidence, she says. (Politics Live, Guardian)

The Home Office itself should be duty-bound to "find" this evidence and then share it with those affected (for their own retention and reference, in case it should be needed in future). Of course, if people want assistance in finding evidence for themselves (in the unikely event of their not trusting the Home Office) then - fine.

And why, if this "evidence" is so freely available, hasn't the Home Office done this already? Lack of will being the obvious answer.

Priti Patel‏Verified account@patel4withamFollow Follow @patel4withamMoreThis is just an appalling situation. Having contributed to all aspects of our country for decades & proudly call Britain home, since when have our values changed to create this injustice?

@NickJTimothyFollow Follow @NickJTimothyMore.@TomTugendhat spot on about Windrush kids. The solution lies in formalising their status, not abandoning sensible policies to limit illegal immigration. But this is urgent: they’re Brits who have done nothing wrong, yet they’re being treated terribly.

I mean c'mon - it's not like he was at Theresa May's side at the Home office for years and then in No 10 is it? Oh...wait..

Thousands of migrants who have lived and worked legally in Britain for decades, in many cases having arrived in the country as children, are falling victim of the government’s more restrictive immigration laws, according to a report by the charity Legal Action Group.

The Conservative MP Steve Double thanks May in the Commons for not giving him responsibility for making the decision about airstrikes when he did not have access to the relevant intelligence. It was right for the executive to take the decision, he suggests. May welcomes his comments.

Watching the statement and ensuing discussion was profoundly depressing. The level of exchanges was almost uniformly low. Tories pretended it was Corbyn the HoC should be discussing and he was an enemy of the UK anyway; the usual Labour suspects continued to oppose their leader rather than the government. Only the SNP introduced serious points for consideration.

May of course did not answer any of the substantial questions but lapped up the sycophancy while colluding with Tory pretense that Corbyn was somehow the villain here. The Syrians didn’t get much of a look in.

A despicable performance all round.————————————————————-

mugsey jamted 40m agoTotally agree. I never thought I could ever hate the tories, and the ideas they represent, as much as I did in the 80s, but they are driving me crazy now. In fact I am nearly at the stage where maybe Thatcher wasn’t so bad after all.—————————————Oh dear, I had the same thought about Thatcher !

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